Dr Simon Carmel
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 874769
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Location
EBS.3.61, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
Weeks 1-3: Fridays, 11am-1pm. Week 4: Friday 27 October, 12noon-2pm Weeks 5&6: Fridays, 11am-12noon & 1:45pm-2:45pm Weeks 7-10: Fridays, 12noon-2pm. Week 11: Wednesday 13 December, 2pm-4pm.
Profile
Biography
I joined the University of Essex in July 2005 and took up my present post in Essex Business School in January 2013. Previous responsibilities and posts include: Acting Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Essex; Associate Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Essex; Lecturer in Health Studies, School of Health and Human Sciences, Essex; Senior Research Officer, University Hospital Lewisham; Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Research Fellow, Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre.
Qualifications
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PhD (London), Sociology as Applied to Medicine
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MSc (Surrey), Social Research
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MSc (Liverpool), Software Engineering
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BSc (Durham), Natural Sciences
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Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy
Research and professional activities
Research interests
professional values
organisational and workplace ethnography
teamwork, inter-professional relations and the division of labour
academic evaluation of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
micro-social theory (interactionism, strong structuration, practice theory)
the concept of vocation
Conferences and presentations
Trust-in-practice: A sociological response to Tom Simpson's "Trust: a Philosophical Study"
Invited presentation, Forming A Christian Mind 2024, Cambridge, 17/2/2024
2023: Control of Immigrant labour in Ethnic Minority Businesses: the case of British Curry Houses
Management Control Association, Durham, 21/6/2023
2023:The Layers of Internal Structures in Strong Structuration Theory
Management Control Association, Durham, 21/6/2023
2022: Ethnographic Sensibility in Qualitative Interviewing
Ethnography Symposum, Ipswich, United Kingdom, 24/8/2022
2022: Science, Medicine, and Marketing: an abandoned treatment for a critical illness
EBS Management and Marketing Group Seminar, 9/2/2022
2021: Expert disagreement in a dispute about intensive care research
AsSIST-UK Annual Conference, Virtual, 10/9/2021
2020: Disputing RCT evidence: a contest for the meaning of intensive care research
Interdisciplinary workshop on Biomedical evidence, Virtual, 1/12/2020
2020: Strong Structuration Theory is Realist Structuration Theory
Strong Structuration in Management and Accounting Research Workshop, Virtual, 18/11/2020
2020: Whose side are you on? On studying contentious legitimate knowledge
EASST/4S, Virtual/Prague, 21/8/2020
2018: The Ethnographic Sensibility of Strong Structuration Theory
Strong Structuration in Management and Accounting Research Workshop, Dublin, 16/4/2018
2017: The association of institutional location with two moral orders of professionalism, International Sociological Association Research Committee 52 Interim conference, Oslo, June.
Oslo, Norway, 2017
2017: 'Two moral orders of professionalism, Centre for Work, Organisational and Society, Essex Business School, May.
Colchester, United Kingdom, 2017
2017: SST and the enactment of professional values (with Pinar Guven-Uslu). Strong Structuration in Management and Accounting Research Workshop, University of Essex, May.
Colchester, United Kingdom, 2017
2016: 'Paradoxical Clinical Practice',Process in Organisational Studies Symposium, Corfu, June.
Corfu, Greece, 2016
2016: Habitus and (in)active agency in public sector management accounting (with Pinar Guven-Uslu). Strong Structuration in Management and Accounting Research Workshop, Paris, May
Paris, France, 2016
2014: 'Science, marketing and professional values', Essex Business School Research Conference, January
Colchester, United Kingdom, 2014
2013: 'Science, marketing and professional values', International Sociological Association Research Committee 52 Interim Conference, Lisbon, November.
Lisbon, Portugal, 2013
2012: 'Clinical Practice and Social Theory, British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group Conference, Leicester, September
Leicester, United Kingdom, 2012
2011: The PROWESS Clinical Trial Conundrum, School of Health and Human Sciences Staff Research Day, University of Essex, July.
Colchester, United Kingdom, 2011
2011: Expert nurses and the division of labour in hospitals, School of Health and Human Sciences, University of Essex, May.
Colchester, United Kingdom, 2011
2010: Expert nurses and the division of labour in hospitals, International Sociological Association, Gothenburg, July.
Gothenburg, Sweden, 2010
2009: Gaining access as a social and problematic phenomenon, Essex Business School Management Group, December.
Colchester, United Kingdom, 2009
2007: Qualitative evaluation of outreach services in critical care, Southern Outreach Forum, Haywards Heath, October.
2007
2007: Evaluating Critical care without walls: the social meaning of an organisational innovation, British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group Conference, Liverpool, September.
Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2007
2007: Evaluation of critical care outreach services: Results from a qualitative sub-study, National Outreach Forum, Sheffield, March.
Sheffield, United Kingdom, 2007
2007: Knowledge, practice and action: the craft of high technology health care, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, February.
Colchester, United Kingdom, 2007
2006: Problems of Social Access: are ethnographers gossips? Ethnography in Social and Management Sciences Conference, Liverpool, September
Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2006
2006: The social organisation of high technology health care, Department of Health and Human Sciences, University of Essex, February.
Colchester, United Kingdom, 2006
2005: The transition from paediatric to adult services for young people with a chronic illness. British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group Conference, York, September.
York, United Kingdom, 2005
2004: The craft of high technology medicine. British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group Conference, York, September.
York, United Kingdom, 2004
2003: Problems in the practice of high technology medicine. British Sociological Association Annual Conference, York, April.
York, United Kingdom, 2003
2002: The organisation of work in intensive care. International Conference on Organisational Behaviour in Health Care, Oxford, March.
Oxford, United Kingdom, 2002
2001: Uncertainty in intensive care work. British Sociological Association Medical Sociology Group Conference, York, September.
York, United Kingdom, 2001
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Personality Differences at Work: a Myers-Briggs Perspective (BE421)
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Management and Strategy (BE485)
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Public Health (Health Visiting)
Degree type: Professional Doctorate
Awarded date: 6/6/2016
Degree type: Master of Science
Awarded date: 21/11/2014
Publications
Journal articles (12)
Carmel, S., (2024). How the context of reception affects the meaning of RCT evidence. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine. 28 (2), 253-271
Carmel, S. and Jacobi, E., (2024). Exploring valuation practices in diagnosis-as-category: The rising dominance of clinical practice in the categorisation of Sepsis, 1991-2016.. Sociology of Health and Illness. 46 (S1), 37-55
Jayasinghe, K., Adhikari, P., Carmel, S. and Sopanah, A., (2020). Multiple Rationalities of Participatory Budgeting in Indigenous Communities: Evidence from Indonesia. Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal. 33 (8), 2139-2166
Agyemang, J., Jayasinghe, K., Adhikari, P., Carmel, S. and Abongeh, T., (2020). Calculative Measures of Organising and Decision-Making in Developing Countries: The Case of a Quasi-Formal Organisation in Ghana. Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal. 34 (2), 421-450
Carmel, S., (2013). The craft of intensive care medicine. Sociology of Health & Illness. 35 (5), 731-745
Carmel, S. and Baker-McClearn, D., (2011). Expert Nurses and the Division of Labour in Hospitals. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine. 16 (3), 282-297
Carmel, S., (2011). Social access in the workplace: are ethnographers gossips?. Work, Employment & Society. 25 (3), 551-560
Baker-McClearn, D. and Carmel, S., (2008). Impact of critical care outreach services on the delivery and organization of hospital care. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy. 13 (3), 152-157
Carmel, S., (2006). Boundaries obscured and boundaries reinforced: incorporation as a strategy of occupational enhancement for intensive care. Sociology of Health & Illness. 28 (2), 154-177
Carmel, S., (2006). Health care practices, professions and perspectives: A case study in intensive care. Social Science & Medicine. 62 (8), 2079-2090
Lowton, K., Mathes, L., Wyatt, H., Luce, P., While, A. and Carmel, S., (2005). Evaluation of transition services for young people with cystic fibrosis in Southeast London. Journal of Interprofessional Care. 19 (4), 408-409
Carmel, S. and Rowan, K., (2001). Variation in intensive care unit outcomes: a search for the evidence on organizational factors. Current Opinion in Critical Care. 7 (4), 284-296
Contact
Academic support hours:
Weeks 1-3: Fridays, 11am-1pm. Week 4: Friday 27 October, 12noon-2pm Weeks 5&6: Fridays, 11am-12noon & 1:45pm-2:45pm Weeks 7-10: Fridays, 12noon-2pm. Week 11: Wednesday 13 December, 2pm-4pm.
